How to set Content-Type of SOE REST Web Service in Java

Question

Hi,

since I didn't find anything helpful, I will post my question here.

I developed a SOE REST Web Service with the Java AcrObjects SDK. For a specific operation I want to return a XML document and for another operation an image.

In another Thread (http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/7993-SOE-REST-Web-Service-How-to-return-different-MIME-content-types) I read that this is possible by setting the responseProperties parameter of the handleRestRequest method of the IRESTRequestHandler interface. So I tried to set it the following way before returning the byte array:responseProperties = new String[]{"{\"Content-Type\" : \"text/xml\"}"};

Unfortunately this has no effect on the response content type, which is still text/plain.

Is there anything wrong with this approach or did I miss something?

Any help or working examples would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Thorsten

TomSchuller · Answer

Hy, just to reopen the discussion. How can I define the content-type in a Java-Rest-SOE? I have this method: public byte[] handleRESTRequest(String capabilities, String resourceName, String operationName, String operationInput, String outputFormat, String requestProperties, String[] responseProperties) throws IOException { So the "responseProperties" is an array of String. In the last post, this should solve the problem:Map responsePropertiesMap = new HashMap();responsePropertiesMap.put("Content-Type", "text/xml"); How can I return the "responsePropertiesMap" in your example? Something like this doesn't work: responseProperties[0]=responsePropertiesMap: Just found it now: This is a solution I got it working: JSONObject contentType = new JSONObject(); contentType.put("Content-Type", "text/xml"); responseProperties[0] = contentType.toString(); Tom

PauliusUrbonas · Answer

Hi there,
this is quite an old post but maybe it will be useful to someone. I worked on returning files from the SOE and figured out that
you have to set response properties to java.util.Map responseProperties before returning bytes array and then it should work:responseProperties.put("Content-Type", "text/xml");

It worked for me.